[Python-Dev] Attention Bazaar mirror users (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 22:11:10 CET 2009

2009/2/21 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:

Wouldn't such hypothetical core Python developers be able to build and run their own local copy of bzr, using that self-compiled Python? It has been hypothetical for a while, but it never was about core developers.

Given that it is all hypothetical by now, if someone is interested in hacking on Python, why should they have to build their own copy of the DVCS to do so?

Paul.

PS Just for my own information, am I correct in thinking that it is only Bazaar in the (D)VCS world that has this problem, to any real extent? I know old Mercurial clients can interact with newer servers (ie, the wire protocol hasn't changed), I'm fairly sure that older Subversion clients can talk to newer servers (at least, I've never cared what client version I'm running). I've not heard of this type of discussion around Git (but my experience is limited). But Bazaar seems very prone to this "upgrade the server and the clients need to be upgraded too" cycle.

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